We, the undersigned, call on the lucas County Board of elections to publicly support uniform, expanded early voting hours across Ohio.
Why is this important?
Support giving registered voters equal opportunity to exercise their right to vote. Publicly support uniform, expanded early voting hours across Ohio. We need to protect our voting rights so that they are not taken from us. Ohio Secretary of State has personally restricted early voting in counties with large Democratic populations-casting tie breaking votes to weekdays 8am to 5 pm in urban areas like Franklin County, where in previous elections 82% of early voters did so on nights or weekends. Now Secretary of State Husted said he is considering limiting ealry voting hours across the state in the run-up to the November election, and will "be listening to the local boards of elections' concerns on this issue."
